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title: For children, practice "pays" later in skills. — Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all tog… · tree and pragmatics
description: For children, practice "pays" later in skills. Who acts: practice. A sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 7

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For children, practice "pays" later in skills.

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**Who acts:** practice · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** skills

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (practice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:7
# text = For children, practice "pays" later in skills.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** *in a quote* | present | practice |  |  | skills |  | for children; late *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for child=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:7`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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